Avonside Church Fresh Air School 1928

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Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - West

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Source: Kete Christchurch

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The Fresh Air Home, Cashmere Sanatorium, Christchurch

Circa 1925

This was a place where the health of the children of patients in Coronation Hospital could be built up. It opened on 23 Oct. 1923. It was the forerunner of the Health Department's children's homes and open-air schools.

Area: South / Cashmere

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The open-air school, Cashmere Sanatorium, Christchurch

Circa 1926

This opened 11 Aug. 1926 and was a model open-air school, based on a plan of a room at St. Andrew's College. It was for the children who were at the Fresh Air Home and was designed to take thirty pupils.

Area: South / Cashmere

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Avonside Church Fresh Air School 1928

1928

My mother, Naomi June Marie Poulsen in the middle with bow in her hair at the Avonside Church Fresh Air School at the back of Avonside Church. She was only 6 and got the tram from Linwood Avenue and then walked along Stanmore Road.

Area: East / Avonside

Contributor: Bronwyn Horgan

Source: Entry in the 2014 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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A classroom at Fendalton Open-Air School, Clyde Road, Christchurch

1928

By the 1920s most parents were being guided by the Plunket Society to realise the benefits of fresh-air and sunlight for their children and the Christchurch Open-Air League had been able to persuade the Canterbury Education Board to build some open-air classrooms. The most common type was like this one at Fendalton School, Christchurch, where on sunny days, sliding doors allowed one whole wall to be opened to allow in fresh air and sunshine. Each pupil had a desk and chair which could be carried outside in fine weather. The porch on the right-hand side of the photograph served as a cloakroom and shelter-shed

Area: North West / Fendalton

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Source: Open-air schools

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